Description: Four blue-grey marble fragments (w: 0.975 (total) × h: 0.15 × d: 0.20) which join, from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth, tapering inwards. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16.
Text: 0.15 × 0.975 (total) × 0.20 Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters: 0.035-0.04; elongated, lunate.
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE (location, script)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Three fragments found in Sector T.XV and Sector T.XIII, str. 1; one stray find.
Original location: Temple/Church: ?crowning the bema/chancel barrier.
Last recorded location: Museum.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[---]iel help your servants Theodoretos and Kyriakos
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 62.100, 62.111, 68.292
Publication: Roueché, ALA 92 and plate xxiii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 648, ALA 2004 92; IAph2007 1.12.
Images
Fig. 1. Left end fragment (Dumbarton Oaks, 1970)
Fig. 2. Left end fragment (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Assembled fragments (M. Roueché, 1977)